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    Keeping Fit All the Way: How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency
    Keeping Fit All the Way: How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency
    Keeping Fit All the Way: How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency
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    Keeping Fit All the Way: How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency

    By Walter Camp

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    Keeping Fit All the Way is a manual on keeping and maintaining physical and mental health. Walter Camp provides an academic book, which may also be used as a mini boot camp, about personal habits men can use to continue personal maintenance. Examples include using your muscles every day, good posture, plenty of water, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 29, 2019
    ISBN4057664615886
    Keeping Fit All the Way: How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency

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      Keeping Fit All the Way - Walter Camp

      Walter Camp

      Keeping Fit All the Way

      How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664615886

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED

      Part I

      KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY

      CHAPTER I

      NATURE A HARD MISTRESS

      THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

      AS THE YEARS GO ON

      THE REMEDY

      WHAT WORRY DOES

      AMERICANITIS

      THE PRICE OF SUCCESS

      CHAPTER II

      THE VALUE OF EXERCISE

      PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES

      THE ROAD TO EFFICIENCY

      A WINTER VACATION

      THE GOSPEL OF FRESH AIR

      UNLEARNED LESSONS

      CHAPTER III

      THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH

      ECONOMIC LOSSES

      WARNING EXAMPLES

      PHYSICAL FITNESS A VITAL FACT

      CHAPTER IV

      THE SENIOR SERVICE CORPS

      THE BASIC IDEA

      COMMUNITY PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

      AN OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM

      INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP ACTION

      WORK AND HYGIENE

      WATER, WALKING, AND FOOD

      A MODEL DIETARY

      HYGIENIC CURE-ALLS

      FRESH AIR

      THE VALUE OF DEEP BREATHING

      CHAPTER V

      THE ORGANIZATION

      TO THE LEADER

      GIVING THE COMMANDS

      STEPS AND MARCHINGS

      THE SETTING-UP EXERCISES

      GROUP EXERCISES

      CHAPTER VI

      A TEN-DAY PROGRAM

      Part II

      THE DAILY DOZEN

      CHAPTER VII

      A MODERN PHYSICAL SYSTEM

      OUT-OF-DATE IDEAS

      OLD-TIME FALLACIES

      A PERFECTLY USELESS STUNT

      PENNY-WISE AND POUND-FOOLISH

      NATURE'S PROCESS

      TIME THE GREAT ELEMENT

      ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES

      MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

      SLACKING IN SETTING-UP DRILLS

      A CALL FOR WORK THAT WILL COUNT

      THE BIG PROBLEM

      THE NEED FOR A CONDENSED SYSTEM OF CALISTHENICS

      A REASONABLE PROGRAM

      CHAPTER VIII

      WORRY AND FEAR

      THE FATAL MISTAKE

      SOMETHING OUT OF A BOTTLE

      CONSERVING THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH

      FLEXING EXERCISES

      THE UNPLEASANT SELF-AWAKENING

      WHY MEN DON'T KEEP FIT

      CHAPTER IX

      A SHORTHAND METHOD

      HEALTH MAXIMS

      CHAPTER X

      GROUP I

      HEALTH MAXIMS

      CHAPTER XI

      GROUP II

      HEALTH MAXIMS

      CHAPTER XII

      GROUP III

      HEALTH MAXIMS

      CHAPTER XIII

      GROUP IV

      HEALTH MAXIMS

      INTRODUCTION

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      The number of men who keep fit in this country has been surprisingly few, while the number of those who have made good resolutions about keeping fit is astonishingly large. Reflection upon this fact has convinced the writer that the reason for this state of affairs lies partly in our inability to visualize the conditions and our failure to impress upon all men the necessity of physical exercise. Still more, however, does it rest upon our failure to make a scientific study of reducing all the variety of proposals to some standard of exceeding simplicity. Present systems have not produced results, no matter what the reason. Hence this book with its review of the situation and its final practical conclusions.

      AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED

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      I believe that a nation should be made up of people who individually possess clean, strong bodies and pure minds; who have respect for their own rights and the rights of others and possess the courage and strength to redress wrongs; and, finally, in whom self-consciousness is sufficiently powerful to preserve these qualities. I believe in education, patriotism, justice, and loyalty. I believe in civil and religious liberty and in freedom of thought and speech. I believe in chivalry that protects the weak and preserves veneration and love for parents, and in the physical strength that makes that chivalry effective. I believe in that clear thinking and straight speaking which conquers envy, slander, and fear. I believe in the trilogy of faith, hope, and charity, and in the dignity of labor; finally, I believe that through these and education true democracy may come to the world.

      Part I

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      KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY

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      CHAPTER I

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      It has long been a startling fact regarding Americans that so soon as their school-days were over they largely abandoned athletics; until, in middle life, finding that they had been controverting the laws of nature, they took up golf or some other form of physical exercise.

      The result of such a custom has been to lower the physical tone of the race. Golf is a fine form of exercise, but in an exceedingly mild way. No one claims that it will build up atrophied muscles nor, played in the ordinary way, that it will induce deep breathing; nor, except in warm weather, that it will produce any large amount of skin action. Hence it is easy to imagine the condition of the man who at the end of his 'teens gave up athletics, and then did nothing of a physically exacting nature until he took up golf. Now if in addition to his pastime and relaxation he will do something in the way of setting-up exercises to open up his chest and make his carriage erect, thus enabling his heart and lungs to have a better chance, he will more than double the advantages coming from his golf. He will then walk more briskly and will gain very much in physical condition.

      NATURE A HARD MISTRESS

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      One thing that our middle-aged men, and in fact many of us who have not yet reached that way mark, have entirely forgotten is that Nature is very chary of her favors. Our primal mother is just and kind, but she has little use for the man who neglects her laws. When a man earns his bread by the sweat of his brow she maintains him in good physical condition. When he rides in a motor-car instead of walking she atrophies the muscles of his legs, hangs a weight of fat around his middle, and labels him out of the running. If he persists in eating and not physically exerting himself, she finally concludes that he is cumbering the earth, and she takes him off with Bright's or diabetes. It does not do him any good to tell her that he was too busy to walk and so had to ride, or that he had no time for exercising; she simply pushes him off to make way for a better man.

      THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

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      Nature has given man two ways (outside of the action of the bowels) of getting rid of impurities, one by means of the skin and the other by means of the kidneys. It is like a motor-car with two cylinders. If one stops the other will run on for a time, but its wear is increased. When a man stops exercising and ceases to carry off by means of his skin some of these impurities, he throws an additional load on his kidneys. When a man goes without exercise and begins to accumulate fat, that fat gradually deposits itself and not alone about the waist; it invades the muscular tissue all over his body even to his heart. As this accumulation grows there come with it a muscular slackness and a disinclination to exercise. The man is carrying greater weight and with less muscular strength to do it. No wonder that when he tries to exercise he gets tired. He is out of condition. Hence he begins to revolve in a vicious circle. He knows that he needs exercise to help take off the fat, but exercise tires him so much, on account of the fat, that he becomes exhausted; usually he gives it up and lets himself drift again. As his abdomen becomes more pendulous his legs grow less active. As his energy wanes his carriage becomes more slack. He shambles along as best he can, if he is positively obliged to walk. His feet trouble him. Altogether he is only comfortable when riding. When he has reached this state the insurance companies regard him as a poor risk, and instead of enjoying the allotted threescore and ten years of real life he falls short by a decade; and even then the last ten years are but labor and sorrow.

      AS THE YEARS GO ON

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      The first thing that a man begins to lose through the inroads of age is his resistive power. He may seem in perfect health so long as there is no special change of conditions, but when he is placed in a position where he needs his resistive forces to throw off disease, he finds that he cannot command them.

      Still another change is continually taking place; as the man goes on in life, little by little the control of his muscles leaves him. Instead of running about as

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